Apparatus for packing cartridges.



No. 633,3. Patented Sept. I9, |899.

G. H. BEATTY. APPARATUS FUR iKlNG IIABTRIDGES. v '(Appumion lma Jury s, 1899.) i (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l. v

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No. 633,3. y Patented sept. |9, |899.

G. H. BEATTY.

^ APPARATUS FUR PACKING CARTRIDGES.

(Application mea .myV s, 1899.)

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APPARATUS FOR PACKING CARTRlDGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,113, datd September 19. 1899. Application nea my 3,1899.. sein rammelt. maanden.

` lbe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use lthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ot this specification.

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My invention relates to improvements iu ap paratus for packingmetallic cartridges in the boxes in which they are sold to the trade, and said invention comprises 'a series of implements or devices which in their conjoint use enable the cartridges to be quickly packed in said boxes, all as will be hereinaftermore fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the apparatus, parts of which are broken away. Fig. 2 is asectional Viewl taken on the line o; x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on the line y y, Fig'. 1. Fig. 4t is an edge view of the apparatus, looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1, parts being breken away. Fig. 5 is a top plan View of one of the elements, termed a shakerplate,7 and the delivery-plate, parts being Fig. 6 is an end'view of the shaker-plate. lFig. 7 is a plan view ot' a blank plat-e or slide used in connection with the shaker-plate. Fig. 8 is a plan View of a portion of the base-plate, showing the crowdingslides for pushing the cartridges into the required space for the box to tit over them. Fig. 9 is a sectional view showingthe cartridges delivered from the perforated delivery-plate onto the base-plate and in a position to be taken up by the bJX; Fig. 10, a transverse section of one of -the crowdingslides.

Similar numerals of reference indicate the same parts in the several views of the drawings.

The base-plate 1 may form the top of a table or it maybe separate therefrom. It may also have any desirable number of spaces which increase the capacity of the apparatus in acf-ordance with the number oi. such spaces.

AThe narrowest portions ot such spaces vare substantially the Width of the conventional cartridge-box, or thewidth and'length of such spaces may correspond to any of the usual shapes of cartridge-boxes. The widest parts 'of said spaces are separat-ed by division-strips 3. The spaces 2 between said division-strips narrou7 at :their entrances or throats 4,. and each of said'spaces has an independent slide 5, which is movable in and out of the widest 'and narrowest parts of said spaces. The said slides are enabled tobe movedin this manner by having their longitudinal edges or sides provided with grooves 6, which permit the edges 7 of the divisions 3 to project therein. There is also another .series of similar slides 8 at the opposite ends of said spaces. These slides are all connected by a common bar 9, which liesacross their tops. Therefore these slides are moved together for purposes similar te those of slides 5, and which will be herein after described.

'Within the widest parts of spaces 2 and between the slides 5 and 8 there is arranged a series of parallel strips 10, over the ends of which the slides 5 'and S are movable by means of grooves 11 eut in the under sides of said slides, said grooves receiving the strips 10 when moved iu the direction of said strips. The slides 8 are prevented from moving olf the base-plate 1 by means of a strip 12,which lies throughout the length of the base 1.

13 .designates a perforated plate of a length sufficient to cover all of the spaces 2 in the base-plate 1 Aiuwhich the division-strips 10 are placed. This plate 13 delivers the cartridges to the base-plate. As shown, the said plate is provided with groups or clusters of round holes 1i, which are large enough to receive each a single cartridge le, which are allowed to pass therethrough into the spaces between the strips 10. y Each group of holes 1i covers an area of space which is equal to all the space between the strips 10. Each face of the plate 13 is recessed or chamfered to provide suitable recesses and guides for slides 1G, which are placed therein to maintain the cartridges in said plate 13 at stated times, as will be more apparent hereinafter. One of said plates 16 forms the bottom of plate 13 while the latter is being carried with its load of cartridges and placed in position on IOO the baseplate l, as shown in Fig. 1, preparatory to discharging the cartridges into the spaces between the strips 10. Plate 13 is loaded with cartridges from a perforated shaker-plate 17. This latter plate is loaded in pairs and the charges or contents of two of such plates are necessary to iill the holes in plate 13. Each plate 17 has half the number of holes 18 as has plate 13, and the holes in said plates 17 alternate in their positionsthat is to say, the holes in one .of the plates 17 would register with the dotted circles 11 in Fig. 5, which represent the holes in plate 13 which are not filled by the plate 17 lwhich is shown thereon in Fig. 5. The dotted circles shown in Fig. 5, it will be borne in mind, in-

dicate the holes in plate 13 which are 'not filled by plate 17 shown, but which will be iilled by the companion plate 17. ln thus placing the other plate 17 plate 13 is turned over from the position shown in Fig. 5 with a blank plate under it and the remaining vacant holes are illed by the other plate 17. Vhen plate 13 is thus completely filled, the

. cartridges in said plate 13 project opposite directions, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 8.

The shakerfplates `17 are in common use -for 4dipping or lubricating cartridges. Therefore i do not consider them any part ci this invention. Sach plates are filled with cartridges in a well-known manner, as follows: They are placed side by side in a box or inciosure and are subjected to a constant shaking or vibration, during which the cartridges are thrown `onto them by hand until each hole 18 receives one, the bullet end of which projects down. "When each of said plates is thus illed, a blank plate 19 (shown in Fig. 7*) is placed on the top thereof, and said plates 17 are carried ene at a time to plate 13 and placed t ereon with .a blank plate 16 between. After said plate 17 has been placed in such position the blank plate 19 is drawn from between said plates 17 'and 13 and the cartridges allowed to drop into the holes 14 in plate 13. Plate 13 is then turned overfwith a blank plate 19 under it to support the cartridges, and the remainder of the unfilled holes 14 in .plate 13 are lfilled with cartridges Afrom the other of the plates 17. When the plate 13 has thus been lled, it together with a blank plate 16, serving 'as a bottom, are carried and placed in position on the base-plate 1, as 4shown in Fig. 1. When the plates are in such position, it is observed each cluster of holes is above the space 2 and the rows of said holes 'areimmediately @ver the spaces between the strips' 10. The slide 16 is then drawn out, and the cartridges are allowed to drop in upright positions into the spaces between the @sans strips lO. The slides 5, and 8 are then moved toward each other in the Widest parts of spaces 2 to crowd and maintain the cartridges-in an upright position, after which said slides, with the cartridges, are moved into the narrowest part of said space 2, which brings the said cartridges within a suitable space for the cartrdge-box 15 to be placed over them, the narrow space into which the cartridges are moved by the slides 5 and 8 being of the saine area as the space within the cartridge-box. Figs. 8 and 9.) After this is done cartridgebox 15 is pressed on the sides by the hand, and said boxwith the cartridges are removed from the apparatus. v

Having fully described my invention, I claiml. In an apparatus for packing cartridges, the combination of a base-plate provided with a series of separated spaces which vary in width, a series of parallel division-strips in .the widest part of each of said spaces, and

slides movable from opposite ends of said spaces and oversaid'division-strips, substantially as and f orthe purposes specified.

2.v ln-an apparatus for packing cartridges, the combination of a baseplate having a series of division-strips 3 which provide a series of spaces 2 of varying widths, aseries of parallel strips 10 arranged in the widest parts of said spaces 2, slides movable in said spaces 2 from opposite ends thereof, a perforated plate adapted to contain cartridges, and a slide forming a removable bottom for said perforated plate, the said slide and perforated plate' being adapted to be placed on the base` plate above the strips 10 substantially as and for the purposesspeciried.

3. vlin an apparatus for packing cartridges, the combination of a base-plate having a sc riesci. division-strips 3 providing a series ot' spaces 2 of varying widths a series of parallel (See ICO

strips 10 arranged in the widest parts of said spaces, movable slides 5 and v8 in said spaces, a plate 13 provided with clusters of openings, each cluster covering a space equal to the greatest width of the spaces 2 in the baseplate, and each longitudinal row of holes in each cluster being over one of the spaces be` tween the strips 10 when the plate 13 is placed in position on the base-plate, andaslideform ing a removable bottom` for said plate 13, all arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified.

1n testimony whereof ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE Il.' BEATTY.

Witnessesz R. .1. MCCARTY, CARL Il. Non. 

